Chequered Ant Spider: Male, ventral

Class:

Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Spiders, Scorpions, Mites & Ticks (Arachnida)

Order:

Spiders (Araneae)

Family:

Ant Spider (Zodariidae) iNaturalist Observation

Species:

Chequered Ant Spider (Australutica sp)

This Photo:

🔍Male, ventral🔎

Thank you Ethan Yeoman & Ben Kurek for confirming the id of this species for us

General Species Information:
Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere
~5.5mm long, so quite small.
Superficially looks like a wolf spider.
Quite unusual for a Zodariid. They are usually pretty hairless and dark/black. This one is quite hairy & pale brown.

This species is

Australian Native Species, not listed in the SA Murray Mallee Survey of 2010.

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